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ellen_datlow ([personal profile] ellen_datlow) wrote2008-11-17 09:24 pm

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And yet again, my outlook email has been crashing as it tries to download my 200 or so saved emails from my trip. Which means I now have about 8 copies of some emails there. And that I can't go in there again till Jim Freund and I see what the effing problem is with pc anywhere tomorrow morning.
In the meantime, I can access my email through webmail but what a pain. I may have to leave outlook if we can't figure out why it does this. (I turned off the email scanner as that helped last time, but no such luck this time--it has gotten almost halfway through but no further. Blghhhh.
Glad to me home and Bella has been laying all over me and the keyboard (no, she's not the reason it crashes ;-) ).
Unpacking and catching up on stuff.

[identity profile] halspacejock.livejournal.com 2008-11-18 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Alternatively you might like to set up a free Gmail account and use webmail instead of a PC mail client - you could access all your mail from any browser window then.

(I'm firmly in the 'use an email client' myself, because I loathe webmail thanks to its lack of flexibility. However, it is an option for many.)

I mentioned Thunderbird below, which is one option. You could also install my freeware yMail2 client and just use it to block & kill off (from the ISP's server) whichever of those 200 emails is causing Outlook to crash. Then download the other 199 into Outlook.

[identity profile] ellen-datlow.livejournal.com 2008-11-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Oh nonnononono. I hate webmail. That's what I'm currently using (my isp's--bway.net) until outlook is fixed.

I already deleted everything I didn't need while traveling. What's left are the items I DO need and need to have in specific folders.

[identity profile] medievalist.livejournal.com 2008-11-18 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
If you haven't actually tried GMail, you might; it's not like Web mail.

And you can do things like have your email forwarded there, or elsewhere, and always have a backup.

And you can have a copy at gmail, and download one locally with an email client.